Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

functional dependency

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English

Syllables: func-tion-al de-pen-den-cy
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Given a relation R and two sets of attributes X,Y⊆R, a constraint X→Y where each X value in R is associated with precisely one Y value in R.

Inflected Forms

functional dependencies (plural)

Questions

What does functional dependency mean?: Given a relation R and two sets of attributes X,Y⊆R, a constraint X→Y where each X value in R is associated with precisely one Y value in R.

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